While you've heard of ISDN, there's a good chance you are uncertain of what it entails and whether or not you actually require it. Even though ISDN is globally available, it's so new that understanding it may demand a little investigation.

In simple terms, ISDN is a replacement for the old telephone service, which was never designed to meet the needs of the information age. ISDN uses the same wiring that currently serves homes and businesses. ISDN service is provided by the same companies that provide telephone services, and you use it to connect telephones, computers, and fax machines. The difference is that you get much faster, much more dependable connections for voice, data, fax, and even video - all through a single line. There is at present that comes close to delivering similar communication benefits.

International ISDN standards were established about 10 years ago. Since then, telephone companies throughout the world have raced to upgrade their equipment to ISDN standards. As ISDN service availability has spread, many millions of computer users have turned to ISDN, and new users are coming on board even faster.
ISDN is fast becoming the De Facto telecommunications medium for companies around the world, offering rapid and error-free communication of voice, data, images, and video on a single digital line.

The Integrated Services Digital Network is an evolution of the telephone network and it provides new functions and services on the already existing digital telephone exchange.

Digital access from the customers premises gives you the ability to make possible end-to-end digital connections that can support a wide variety of services such as voice, video telephony, video conference, facsimile, data and image transfer.

What does ISDN offer? ISDN is one of today's most important business developments. ISDN offers you:

• A competitive advantage because of inexpensive and virtually unlimited communications power;
• A strategic business tool that allows global and national corporate to share information and expertise to participate in complex transactions and decision-making;
• Simplicity - One access various services;
• Reliability - high quality error free transmission;
• Flexibility, as it is a switched digital network;
• Enhanced productivity because of increased speed and capacity;
• Cost savings because of the reduced cost of many existing communication applications and enabling the development of integrated applications that open new horizons in business communications.

ISDN Access. There are two kinds of ISDN access:
Basic rate interface and Primary rate interface.

• Basic Rate Access offers two 64kbit/s channels (known as B channels) and one 16kbit/s channel (known as the D channel). The B channel may be used for voice, data, video or image communications by the user and the D channel is used for signaling.
• Primary Rate Access offers 30 B channels of 64kbit/s each and one 64kbit/s D channel which is used for signaling.

FAX
ISDN brings new levels of speed, reliability and quality to fax. Operating over digital lines,at 64bit/s, and incorporating high-speed laser printers using plain paper, they can produce quality levels very close to that of the original document. Quality problems inherent in transmitting over long distances are virtually eliminated. With ISDN, the most complex drawing takes less than eight seconds to transmit anywhere in the world (group four fox).

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Prices:

ISDN 64kb : R130.00
ISDN 128kb: R180.00

Prices are subject to change without notice.
All prices are VAT inclusive